My First BYU Police Encounter

On Saturday I was cleaning up some stuff in my room, and I had s'mores materials leftover from my geology camping trip (which I still need to write a blog post about....) and I knew I wasn't going to eat a whole box of graham crackers before the end of the semester. I don't even like graham crackers. Well, I figured the ducks would like my leftover graham crackers, so at about 9 p.m. I knocked on Jess's door and asked her if she wanted to go to the duckpond with me to feed them graham crackers. She gave me a really weird look, like I was crazy, but she agreed to go. So we went and fed graham crackers to the ducks. Then on our way back from the duckpond, while walking down the hill to Helaman Halls we saw some people from our ward up on the top level of the parking garage, then Matt and Riley threw a water balloon at us! Well, this meant war. We had a bag of marshmallows in my s'mores supplies that had been opened, and had gone stale, so they were rock solid. We ran up to the top of the parking garage and found a game of real-life MarioKart going on. We started throwing our rock hard marshmallows at Riley and Matt because they were the main offenders. Then we found their stash of water balloons, so we got one and hid. When Riley came by pushing his shopping cart with some girl in it, we tried to throw it at them, but we missed. Then we decided to get another water balloon to try to hit the cart that Matt was pushing with Isaac in it. While we were hiding in the bushes a cop car pulled up and asked what was going on. It probably did look pretty ridiculous. There were 4 shopping carts with people in them rolling around a parking garage with balloons attached to them, throwing banana peels, mushrooms, and water balloons at the other carts. Isaac explained the game in full detail to the cop, and the cop said "Oh, that sounds fun! Keep on doing what you're doing, but I'll have to ask you to stop if someone calls in and complains about it." After that, Jess and I left back to our dorm. However, we weren't done with our revenge. Not at all.

We wanted to find water balloons to get them back. However, we didn't know where to find water balloons at that time of night and quickly. It was around 11:30 p.m. by then. I had a bag of powdered sugar in my room, so we decided we would throw that at them. They were already covered in water from the water balloons, so the powdered sugar would stick nicely. In the hallway, we ran into Monique who told us that she had balloons! She joined in our revenge plot and we filled up four water balloons with super cold water and got a container full of powdered sugar. We ran up from the bottom of the parking garage and attacked with the water balloons and powdered sugar and we had a lot of fun! I really needed something fun like that to relieve the stress of finals week.